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Main definitions of cashier in English

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noun

‘He called on the public not to corrupt city employees and only to pay accounts to designated cashiers.’

‘The cashier took the check and handed her a receipt.’

‘The army of typists, filing clerks, cashiers, accountants, storekeepers, and drivers had a low level of education, were inefficient, reluctant to take initiative, and imbued with an ethos of red tape and routinism.’

‘Next I called Drew, hoping he still had the receipt for the cashier's check.’

‘There were nevertheless a group of fairly homogenous predominantly female jobs like cleaning, retail cashiers and sales assistants, which some men have entered in increasing numbers.’

‘Stores gave cashiers black lists of banks whose cheques were not acceptable.’

‘And come to think of it, I was recently harassed by a cashier in a shop.’

‘Operating room nurses, surgeons, bank tellers, cashiers and other people who must spend hours on their feet find compression hosiery helpful in combating circulatory problems and leg fatigue.’

‘Penny works as a supermarket cashier and spends most of her home life trying to deflect obscene verbal abuse from her son, Rory, a couch potato.’

‘The bank was expanding, and we needed two cashiers, so I became a cashier in the bank.’

‘Employees who are over-qualified for their jobs may also experience stress resulting from underload, graduates working as supermarket cashiers and warehouse attendants, for example.’

‘Some of the other changes will include a cluster of round tables in the centre of the coffee shop and moving the cashier to the opposite end of the service area to improve customer flow.’

‘They will be right across the board from cashiers to shop floor, managers to warehouse.’

‘I can't help but think how much much money was being rung through the cashiers of big shops such as this.’

‘‘It's very bad in the evenings, especially on Saturdays and Sundays,’ says the cashier at a sports shop.’

‘He has also pointed out the role played by women as bookkeepers and cashiers in small businesses, before they started to make an entry into the professional world of accounting.’

‘Your finances are in tatters, your blood pressure is rising and the queue for the bank cashiers ' desks is never-ending.’

‘Smartly dressed young ladies who work as cashiers at the banks that line the road dash across with handkerchiefs held tightly across their noses and mouths.’

‘Bank cashiers have been known to key in the wrong amount by mistake.’

‘For much of the last fifty years the country's banks have operated as cashiers for often insolvent state enterprises, paying little attention to their ability to repay, and building up a mountain of bad debt.’

‘Ten years previously he had been cashiered out of the navy and had joined an SS group in Hamburg.’

‘He was cashiered and would spend the next three years in prison.’

‘Following this experience, officers were often delayed from entering active duty until older officers retired, resigned, or were cashiered.’

‘Although cashiered military officers formed a Legitimate Command in September 1990, they could not create an effective fighting force in exile.’

‘When one erring General committed the Amritsar massacre in India, there was great public outrage in Britain and he was cashiered over it.’

‘A further 150 generals have been cashiered and live under close surveillance.’

‘He was too vicious for even the Empire, and they cashiered him for some particularly violent ‘police action ‘a few years back.’’

‘The marshal would be cashiered and ‘promoted’ to a non-existent command in the west to silence his warnings of a potential shift of power in the direction of U.S. high-tech weaponry.’

‘He was cashiered over it.’

‘But he soon quarrelled with the Rump and defied its attempt to cashier him by leading a military coup in October.’

‘The court acquitted six of the defendants, while the soldiers on trial were all cashiered.’

‘Jerome managed to be captured by Chief Joseph's men in 1877 and the army all but cashiered him, but he lived long and well on his inheritance, likely meeting his grandnephew Winston Churchill before his 1935 death.’

‘Gen Whitelock was cashiered at the hospital in 1807 after his court martial for surrendering the fortress of Montevideo.’

‘In the Soviet Union, a series of ruthless political purges killed or cashiered the Red Army's most talented officers, stripping the military of the expertise it needed to cope with the complexities of modern warfare.’

‘MacGregor had no right to the title ‘Sir’ and, far from being a hero of the Napoleonic wars, he had been cashiered out of the British army without ever seeing a shot fired in anger.’

‘Someone says that that's a saving only if you cashier them out of the military.’